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Before we jump into the show, or the body of the show, I had a couple notes regarding stool testing and hip-compliant video tools.

I just wanted to quickly cover.

We've got a few people asking about what are the best stool tests to use and why. And there's a couple

of things to really consider there. There's insurance versus non-insurance, which is a significant

issue. And don't be fooled by some of what you hear potentially in certain functional medicine

circles that you have to use special functional labs because they're for some reason better

than these huge lab companies like Lab Corp.

and Quest that have quite a depth of testing.

In my experience, that's not true at all.

It's just you have to work quite a bit harder to carve out all the codes needed to put

together a panel that's comparable in terms of the the comprehensiveness to the

functional medicine labs but if someone has health insurance and you've got the right test codes

you can do a good job for stool testing using labs like lab corp and quest and that can save a significant

amount of money so it's something that should definitely be emphasized there's also the excuse me there's also the

balance between being comprehensive and also being unnecessary there are

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